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affable

/af-uh-buhl/US // ˈæf ə bəl //UK // (ˈæfəbəl) //

和蔼可亲,和蔼可亲的,和蔼可亲的人,和蔼的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
    • : showing warmth and friendliness; benign; pleasant: an affable smile.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.friendly
Antonyms

Examples

  • Apart from my affable old roommate, Logan, I didn’t know the rest of these Spikeballers all that well.

  • Democratic mainstay Terry McAullife—bestie to the Clintons, former Democratic National Committee chairman and perhaps the most affable fundraiser in the party—is looking to again become the gubernatorial nominee.

  • Our guide on that tour is affable company spokesman Steve Tuttle, who cheerfully explains Axon’s mission using words like “transparency” and “passion.”

  • Luke Combs, Eric Church and Luke Bryan keep dominating the radio with affable odes to love, heartbreak, whiskey and small towns.

  • Four, the recruitment by the Republicans of affable-seeming candidates who had some discipline drilled into them.

  • And that brings me to an otherwise affable cast of candidates.

  • He was always affable but ultimately unknowable; intellectually incurious but ferociously ambitious.

  • She plays Lolly, an affable inmate who listens to Piper recount her gruesome bashing of Pennsatucky, whom she believes she killed.

  • He had to prove that Fallon's reign isn't a fluke, that late night really can be a home for the affable and good-natured.

  • In manners affable, and in benevolence unsurpassed, the Kentucky planter gains the plaudits of all.

  • Col. Moore, a veteran politician of the Old Dominion, was a most pleasant and affable gentleman, and a great lisper withal.

  • Montaigne would say:219 I will have elbow-room: I will be courteous and affable according to my fancy, without fear or remorse.

  • It was the rule to be courteous, affable, gentlemanly, for all this was in harmony with the severity of art.

  • She had seen him on his former visit, and remembered favourably his genial good-humour and affable bearing.